Courtroom 1.3 - waiting room

I did a drawing outside the wrong courtroom at Downing Centre as I was trying to find the opening hearing of Andrew Katelaris's trial. He was one floor above. Andrew is a doctor (though deregistered) who has been treating conditions including epilepsy with weed -usually high CBD strains which make you more mellow than stoned - as well as conducting researchand is being prosecuted for supply,

This is interesting as marijuana is now becoming widely accepted in medicine, and prohibitions on its use are slowly lifting in many places. But Andrew jumped the gun, not prepared to wait till the wheels of politics and the law had ground forward to legalisation, especially as the  some of his patients symptoms were so severe and the treatment so effective.

I have to make a plea to the magistrate (please?) to see if I will be allowed to draw there. I'm doing a large portrait of Andrew as a commission, and as he is a man of ideas, and educated argument, what better place to draw him than where those ideas are to be argued before the court, with his freedom in the balance

 

Those courtroom document trolleys are insane